CDC May Lose Entire Prostate Cancer Funding
The national men’s cancer survivor support and advocacy nonprofit organization, Malecare, protests against the proposed elimination of funding for prostate cancer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prostate cancer is one of the [...]
Oral Drug Parity – What Is It and Do I Have It?
Cancer survivors have many additional problems in their life. I guess the most significant problem is that we have a life threatening illness. So, why are we forced to have to worry if our medications [...]
*Smoking Doubles the Chance That Men with Prostate Cancer Will Die From the Cancer
In a new study it was shown that smoking doubles the chances that a prostate cancer survivor will have the cancer spread and that he would die from the cancer. Study co-author Dr. Michael Zelefsky, [...]
Radiologic Progression Free Survival Might Predict Treatment Response and Survival
In a recent publication it was suggested that radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) was highly consistent and highly associated with overall survival. This reproducible quantitative find could have [...]
Radiation Plus Hormone Therapy Prolongs Survival for Older Men with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer *
It was recently discovered that if hormone therapy (ADT) is added to radiation cancer deaths are lowered by nearly 50 % in men with locally advanced prostate cancer aged 76 to 85 compared to men [...]
Liver Metastases and ECF – A Possible Treatment In A Not Good Situation
Liver metastases are uncommon in men with castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Having liver metastases is associated with more serious disease and shorter survival. How to treat men with liver metastases is still not very [...]